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| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Josef von Sternberg |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 12 February, 1932 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Mca Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Drama, Feature Film-drama, Movie |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 096898082730 |
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FIne Sternberg fantasia NOTE: VON STERNBERG WAS AMERICAN...
Sternberg's films make no sense to most movie fans, who skim a film for its story or for its stars or its "realism". Sternberg's stories are usually slow, the stories trite or perverse, his inattention to casting and acting can be almost shocking, and realism is nowhere to be found.
But his ultra-stylized mises en scene are unique, his feeling for exotic, poetic, and sensual visual effects is without equal. He is a visual stylist, more of a painter than a filmmaker, but on top of that he touches on subtle emotions rarely expressed in other films... Like very, very few other directors, Sternberg was truly a poet.
This film is probably the most famous of the Sternberg/Dietrich collaborations in the U.S. It shows both of them working at the top of their game...
Yawn. Don't Bother.
This film is incredibly slow, and it has put me to sleep twice now. I can't understand all this ooing and ahing over it. 5 stars? Yawn. And I generally love (and tolerate) old films and find Marlene fascinating, but this one never really takes off. I'd rather see Blonde Venus again than sit through Shanghai Express. Clive Brook is a troll, and his performance is a waste of celluloid, a la David Niven or Cary Grant.
Love and Adventure on a Romantic Train Ride
Paramount's SHANGHAI EXPRESS is an adventure story and above all a love story about Shanghai Lily (Marlene Dietrich) and Captain Harvey (Clive Brook) who used to be her lover. Most of the action takes place on a train which is held up by Chinese bandits.
SHANGHAI EXPRESS stands as one of the best of Marlene Dietrich's performances with Josef von Sternberg as director. What I also find especially intriguing about this classic gem are the appearances of Warner Oland and Anna May Wong in important supporting roles.
Although he is best remembered as Charlie Chan, the Swedish actor Warner Oland had in addition a distinguished film career playing a variety of heavies. He was Colonel von Hindau in DISHONORED with Marlene Dietrich in 1931. This movie was also directed by Josef von Sternberg.
Anna May Wong had an equally illustrious career. One early success before sound was her role as a Mongol slave in THE THIEF OF BAGDAD with Douglas Fairbanks in 1924.